Right. It might help to distinguish between the API and the application behind it--the API is more of a contract (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract) that is implemented/supported by...

API == Application Programming Interface (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface).

Application: You have an existing piece of software you'd like to use. For example, the...

They are represented as sequences of bytes, which themselves are composed of bits, all of which is binary... I'm not sure what exactly you're asking there.

Graphics file formats aren't just...

The standard well-defined approach is to create a parser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing) for your input language and use it as part of a compiler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler) that...

Since you can't track a count of zeros and ones in a DFA, try looking at having a state for each possible outcome as you run through the input string--so your states would represent combinations of...

Ah, sorry I came in too late... good that you found it, though.

The phrase "fabricated software" doesn't ring any bells for me, but it might refer to component-based software engineering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component-based_software_engineering).

It's...

If "Poisson RNG" means "pseudorandom number generator that generates Poisson-distributed numbers," you can generate your own from a uniform distribution...

Since you already have the textbook's answers...

They're significant for readability. The book's solution makes it much clearer that both a dog existing and X owning that dog are necessary to X...

Definitely. Programming is basically an engineering discipline, but a programmer is closer to an interpreter or translator than any other kind of engineer. Sure, you can get the job done sitting in...

It's called the Turing test, after Alan Turing.

Here's an article (http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0492.html?m%3D19) that may be of interest... I'll throw in a quote...

That sum is a lot more complicated than it has to be. It turns out to be equivalent to sum[k=1..31](256^k). Also, it looks like you've transposed the numerator and denominator in the last step,...

Looks like Java code that dumps the contents of a URL-referenced file to a text box. No idea what it might be part of.